Conan is my favorite talk show host! He and Kanye share a humorous chat…
Kanye says that he’s going to do something about the vulture-like state of paparazzi. I wonder if that’s overly optimistic. Didnt even George Clooney try that a few years ago?

Love Conan’s Gibb rendition.

But that bathroom comment was completely manic. Most awkward moment ever on Conan? I wish Conan had a blog (one that wasnt on the radar so that he could be completely honest on it) just so that I could find out his reaction to that moment.

But in far more silly ‘Ye news….NYMag and UK tabloid The Sun are speculating that Kanye’s heartbreak is being tended to by 19-year-old model-of-the-moment Sessilee Lopez….(more…)

“God’s honest truth, for real, we came in there feeling good,” Mega said about his camp’s demeanor at the Dirty Awards. “If you [look] at the beginning of the videotapes, it will show we didn’t come on no hostility. When the disrespect started coming, we was eating it, then it got blatantly out of hand. That’s when it all happened.”

“I think [Lo] feels like he ain’t getting his just due. I can understand, but God will give you blessings, and your blessings might not as be as big as the next man. Be thankful for what you got.

“What happened with me — Tip had nothing to do with that,” Alfa added, now going into what led to the night’s second incident. “It just happened. They was performing the song, I was like, ‘Let’s have fun.’ I start dancing. I’m feeling good. That’s my boy, Yung L.A., he made it. I get on top of the table, Shawty gets on the table. Shawty fakes like he’s gonna throw a drink on me. By then I stepped down.”

“I could have made a move. I could have jumped from one table to the next,…. I seen three or four more dudes like they gonna do me bodily harm. My first reaction — me being who I am, I am a funny dude, but hey, I can wake up — was to smack the dude. I didn’t punch him, I smacked him. I swung on the other dudes, they started swinging. Grand Hustle didn’t have nothing to do with that situation. It was on Alfamega.”

“I embarrassed, y’all,” he said. “Certain people were subjected to the pepper spray. By them trying to spray me, that lingering fumes got other people. I’m embarrassed by the whole situation.”

Aww. This guy is so huggable.

PS:….um, can you be knocked unconscious with an open hand?? (Would a Maino vs Alfamega friendly smackfest count as MMA?)

*Update: Bossip’s Kim Walker caught T.I. post-fight#1 acceptance speech for his Humanitarian of the Year award (snicker). You can listen to the veiled daggers here.

well, I watched like 4 different videos of the fracas between T.I.’s Grand Hustle crew and Shawty Lo’s crew from Monday night’s Dirty Awards in Atlanta. (Which I’m gonna be honest…is not the more optimistic award show name if you want to avoid fracas)

And honestly, I can’t tell what the hell is going on. So I’ll just rely on play-by-play from Shaheem and Gyant.

But I will come to this conclusion. Alfamega is the superhybrid of label artist/security/hypeman/henchman/even comic relief! You other artists who are signed to a big star and just sit around recording and stuff? Pshaw! You better get your weight up. This guy is the Robo-Flex of side artists.
(“I love my job!” -Alfamega)

I also feel vindicated in my original cynicism about that fake-ass T.I. and Shawty Lo truce from before. Don’t ever date someone who has to leave their boyfriend/girlfriend for you. And don’t ever trust pressured truces.
(“Hate you.” “Hate you back, Hater.”)

(photos spotted at Necole‘s.)
Video and description of the fight after the jump(more…)

“A Grammy Award-winning rapper and music producer originally sentenced to 14 years in prison for smuggling cocaine is one of 16 people receiving pardons or reduced sentences from President Bush.

John Edward Forte of North Brunswick, N.J., a graduate of the elite Phillips Exeter Academy prep school who later became a producer for the rap group The Fugees and released two albums on his own, was caught in 2000 at Newark International Airport with two briefcases filled with $1.4 million worth of liquid cocaine, according to court documents.

Forte, 33, a first-time offender, was convicted of possessing the 31 pounds of cocaine with intent to distribute and was sentenced to a minimum of 14 years at Fort Dix, N.J. (Forte’s Web site)

With the commutation*, Forte will be released Dec. 22, after serving just over seven years. He still faces five years of supervised probation.”

(I’ve never been a fan of how instrinsic to Forte’s story was that dang Phillips Exeter alumni subtext. )

I guess Carly Simon was still advocating on Forte’s behalf even 7 years later? Wow. Too bad the old gang is all in a disarray. I talking to Forte back in the day, he was a clever guy. What a crazy road its been.